Bush and Cheney File
Tax Returns for 2002

WASHINGTON -- President Bush paid about $269,000 in taxes on $856,000 in adjusted gross income, a 31.4% rate, according to his tax return.

Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne, meanwhile, paid about $341,000 on $1.17 million in income, a 29.2% rate. Their income included about $162,000 in deferred compensation that Mr. Cheney received from Halliburton Co., where he formerly served as chief executive.